Imagine my surprise reading this on the LA Times this morning (emphasis mine):

“I would not acknowledge reproduction as a human right, but instead as a form of rape,” IndictEvolution wrote on Lemmy.World in July 2023. “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely…”

Here is an archive of the article.

Here is his account.

It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn’t provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don’t specify.

    • turtle [he/him]OP
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      127 days ago

      You mean the reporters? I wondered about that, but then realized that the guy tended to use the same online nickname on various sites. Searching the web for that nickname probably turned up a bunch of his accounts and then they could read the comments to determine if they were likely the same person. Pretty good reporting, I thought.

      • Lime Buzz (fae/she)
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        227 days ago

        Ah, good reason to always make new usernames for each site/service that is signed up for. 😉

        • turtle [he/him]OP
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          127 days ago

          Yes, definitely a good privacy and security practice. Different passwords is important too. Different email addresses as well, if possible. There are services like simplelogin and anonaddy that make the email part simple.

          • Lime Buzz (fae/she)
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            227 days ago

            Yes, the email I use has that built in, though if I can I don’t use email for an account, like on Lemmy (which is how it should be everywhere in my opinion, just a username and password). All my passwords are different too!

    • wuphysics87
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      What the fuck is wrong with you? This guy bombed a clinic, and you are joking about the distro he used?

        • wuphysics87
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          128 days ago

          Fedora actually. Regardless, work on that whole cynical tween thing and try not to spend too much time trying to be edgy by misreading Nietzsche. You’re better than that.

          • @[email protected]
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            1128 days ago

            You got “cynical tween” and “misread Nietzsche” from a four word joke about Arch users? Okay, sure buddy…

        • @[email protected]
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          228 days ago

          Wait, is this not the guy who killed someone by bombing a fertility clinic? Did I just make the assumption that this was the same guy???

          • @[email protected]
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            228 days ago

            The someone he killed was himself. He blew himself up on a day that the area of the clinic nearest him wasn’t really in use and wherever the eggs are was not in range. He certainly could have killed someone, he just didn’t happen to.

  • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any]
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    29 days ago

    These weirdo antinatalists and their misanthropic ideology are very dangerous. They often like to hide their true intentions behind pseudo progressive opinions.

    • @[email protected]
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      Lol true intentions?? I’m a Misanthropic Anti-Natalist. Maybe even something more base even. I’ve found I’m anti-life in general. I wish the planet earth itself was hit with such a large celestial body as to simply explode. Life is suffering. I was raped when I was brought into this world without my permission. Life is 100% more suffering than pleasure. And we think it’s all ok because we are On team Alive, team Earth, team Human, team nation, culture! Art! Music! The “human Project”… such sheep mentality. If animals tomorrow everywhere gained sentience they would rightfully fight us humans to the death! We kill and eat them and cause endless pain and suffering… so fuck all life everywhere, I know it’s essentially universal entropy in action, but I find it pathetic and arrogant, humans that is.

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      I don’t think they even do hide them very good, they are scratched really fast. Worse is that malthusianism runs pretty shallow under mainstream liberalism and is reproduced by white supremacy.

    • @[email protected]
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      1728 days ago

      We’ll have to push back with pointing to the decentralized nature of the fediverse, and that there’s gonna be crazies on some instances. I always use email as an analogy when explaining Lemmy, maybe we could continue that and argue you wouldn’t blame all of email infrastructure if an extremist had a gmail or Hotmail or whatever.

      Actually now that I read that, it just might be more confusing. But there’s gotta be a counter angle to argue to get ahead of people thinking “Lemmy=bad”

      • @[email protected]
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        Also even if the cops shut down world, people will just … move. Like yours and my instances don’t even have the word “lemmy” in the domain. I don’t think anyone would care beyond “we shut down that radical forum.”

        Though most likely is it goes completely unnoticed and some bombing or shooting or human rights abuse next week will shoves it down the memory hole for good.

        • @[email protected]
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          1128 days ago

          some bombing or shooting or human rights abuse next week will shoves it down the memory hole for good.

          Next week? Try last night in DC. I’m doubting this will even register tbh

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          It would not bode well for the future of discourse if lemmy.world of all places gets shut down for radicalism. Our instance is significantly more radical than lemmy.world. Can you imagine some ecofascist idiot who posted on slrpnk.net a couple times committing a terror attack and getting the instance taken down? I can, which is why this news should be very concerning.

          Edit: Just looked through some of the bomber’s comments and their replies and some users even pointed out that his rhetoric was reminiscent of ecofascism. Anti-natalism and ecofascism are ideological siblings. The backlash to this attack is going to catch environmentalist groups in the crossfire, with many environmental activists being accused of having anti-natalist views. Anyone who’s ever advocated for degrowth might get lumped in with them.

          • turtle [he/him]OP
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            227 days ago

            I agree, you have very good points. I don’t particularly think that him having posted for about a month two years ago on a particular instance is any particular mark against that instance, as I think that that could have happened to many (but perhaps not all) Lemmy instances. Good point about backlash hitting eco activists too.

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          It’s funny because even of the people I know, it’s actually like “lemmy=what?” Even of the people I’ve talked to about it.

          They’re so painfully disinterested, they usually tune out after the first five words of my fediverse elevator pitch.

  • @[email protected]
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    2528 days ago

    Our very first terrorist. We’re going places boyos. Just hope this doesn’t bring like minded people here, especially since reddit banned that sub, and Lemmy’s is still up.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 days ago

      We’re still so young, we haven’t even killed anyone yet.

      quick edit: I do have suggestions tho

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    4929 days ago

    Wonder if the wayback machine can find anything from reddit or if we can find their account on lemmy.

    Fuckin wild and 100% un-surprised it was .world lol

    • turtle [he/him]OP
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      3429 days ago

      I linked his account on Lemmy.world in the original post. I couldn’t find an active account on Reddit though, unless the LA Times reporters used the wayback machine themselves to see his old posts. I’m sure that they would be on wayback machine, but the article mentions a different web handle associated with him.